Hay-press.



Patented May 2|, I'90l.

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Hl-\Y PRESS.

(Application lad Apr. 14, 1900.)

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No. 674,596. Patented may 2|, lam. G. H. BRIDGES a T. c. SMITH.

HAY PRESS.

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l v v ZU-zfnesass J Nirnn Srafrns GEORGE HARDIN BRIDGES AND 'II-IOMAS OHESLY SMITH, OF CHARLESTON, MISSOURI.

HAY-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,596, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed April 14, 1900. berial No. 12,896. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE HARDIN BRIDGES and THOMAS CHEsLY SMITH, citizens of the United States, residing at Charleston,

in the county of Mississippi and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Presses; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as io will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to presses, and more particularly to that variety thereof usually termed hay-presses, though it will be found equally useful and efficient for pressing into compact shapely bales all suoli material as hay, cotton, hemp, (he.

The object of our invention, among others, is to provide convenient means for bringing great power to bear upon a bale to be compressed at the expense of little force from the operator. a

A further object, among others, is to enable the operator to very readily tie or secure the bale after it has been disposed in a compressed condition. y

Further objects and advantages will be made fully apparent from the following specication, considered in connection with the accompanying.,t drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a side view of our invention complete. Fg. 2 is a central longitudinal verti- -'cal section. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken on line x of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail showing the preferred form of plunger to be employed. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail of what We will term our followerplate. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of our improved wire-threading needles.

In referring to the several parts of our invention and their cooperating accessories numerals will be employed, of which 1, 2, 3, and 4 are the usual uprights, the same being duplicated upon each side and may be multiplied in number as deemed necessary, while 5 and 6 represent., respectively, the lower and upper sections of the frame, which may be connected to the said uprights by bolts or otherwise, the object being to provide a strong outer frame designed to hold in its operative position the interior casing 7. The one end of the casing thus constructed is provided upon each side with the longitudinally-disposed slot 8, while the opposite end thereof is provided with two longitudinally-disposed slots 9 and l0, the latter being at that end of the casing wherein the bale is formed and are designed to subserve a purpose which will be hereinafter fully set forth. It will be seen that We have therefore provided a rectangular frame having a suitable bottom 11 and also a top section l2, a portion of Which is out away and provided with the receiving hopper 13, through which the hay or other material to be compressed is introduced into the compres'- sion-chamber.

In Fig. 3 we have shown aplunger-head-14, provided with a suitable piston 15, which is firmly connected in any preferred way to said head and also to the driving-beam 16, which is provided near each end with a recess 17, which reduces said beam suiciently to enable the reduced part to be received by the slotted opening 8, thereby holding said beam against lateral movement when it is drawn toward the compression-chamber by means of the actuating-rope 18. The actuating-rope 18 is secured at one end to the anchoring-bolt 19, and from thence passes around a pulley 20 to the outer end of the beam 16, and thence passes around the pulley 21, secured to the upright 2, and from thence passes to the Winding-drum 22, where it is secured. The winding-drum is secured to the supporting-axle 23, mounted in suitable bearings upon the upper portion of the frame, while said shaft has attached,'pret`erably to the middle portion thereof, the gear 24, designed to mesh with the driving-gear 25, mounted upon'the shaft 26, said shaft being manually or otherwise rotated by the crank 27, as clearly shown. It will be understood that the rope 18 and the several pulleys and drum coperating therewith are to be duplicated upon each side of the machine, in order that equal force may be applied at each end of the beam 16. By this arrangement of the actuatingrope 18 it will be understood that great power may be readily applied to drive the head 1 4 forward toward the compression chamber.

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By reference to Fig. 2 it will be observed that said head is held in a normally withdrawn position by the compression-spring 28, one end of which is secured to a cross-piece of the frame 29 by means of the eyebolt 30 or otherwise, while the other end is secured directly to the outer side of the head by the eyebolt 31.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that when the head is in a withdrawn position it will rest under the edge of the hopper 13, through which the hay or other commodity may be readily introduced, and after the desired quantity has thus been placed in position within the receiving-chamber, which is immediately underneath the hopper, the head may be driven forward by the operation of the handle 27, which will force the hay into the compression-chamber proper and against the threading-needles 32, when said bale may be readily secured by wires in the usual manner, it being understood that another pair of threading needles is to be introduced through the slotted openings 9 and lO im mediately in advance of the head, thus enabling1 the Wires to be drawn through the mass of compressed hay or other substance, inasmuch as each of the eyes 33 is threaded with the end of a wire. It will be understood that the threading-needles or device illustrated in Fig. 6 Will also be found very useful to engage the two ends of a wire after it has passed around or through a bale of hay, as by eX- tending said ends through the eyes 33, when said ends may be easily twisted together and effectively secured. As will be seen by reference to the drawings, a hole is provided in the end of each needle adapted to loosely receive the end of the baling-wire, and it is obvious that after the device has thus beenv threaded and turned sufficiently to twist the ends ofthe wires together the free ends of the wires may be slipped out ofthe aperture by which it has been engaged, thus leaving the ends of the wires twisted securely together and insuring that the bale will be reliably secured.

The threading needles are preferably formed in pairs from a single piece of suitable material, as a heavy wire or a light rod, the ends of which are properly sharpened, as shown in Fig. 6, each of said ends being provided with an aperture 33. The needles thus constructed are preferably placed in position before the hay is introduced, which will leave the pointed ends protruding through the slots 9 and 10, while said needles will lie directly in contact with the end of the casing. After the hay has been introduced into the compression-cham ber the ends of the baling-wires maybe hooked into the apertures 33, when said needles may be withdrawn, which will cause the balingwires to be drawn aftersaid needles, and thus leave said wires to occupy the saine position as its respective needle had previously filled. After the wires have thus been drawn through at reach end of the bale they may be readily twisted together or otherwise secured, and thereby hold the bale of hay or other commodity in a compressed state.

In Figs. 4and 5 we have illustrated another means which maybe adopted in securing the bale after the desired degree of compression has been imparted thereto, said means consisting in providing the head upon its inner surface, preferably on each side of the center thereof, with the tapering threading-needles 34 and 35, eachof which is provided upon each side with a longitudinally-disposed groove 36 of suhicent depth to receive onehalf, more or less, of the baling-wire, while the free ends of the needles are provided with a retaining notch or recess 37, by which the wire is held in place upon the point of a needle. The notch or recess 37 in the end of the threading-needles 34 and 35 is to be made of proper extent to receive the baling-wire, and it is obvious that when said wire is thus entered in the recess 37 and bent so as to lie in the groove 36 said needles, with their accompanying wire, may be readily thrust into the mass of hay, and thereby cause the bent portion of the wire occupying the recess in the extreme end of the needles to reach sufficiently through the mass of hay to enable them to be grasped, and when said wire is severed at the point where it is thus bent around the point of the needle or the part thereof occupying the recess 37 one of the ends may be bent tothe rightaround the end of the bale, while the other end is bent around to the other side, and since the wires have thus been passed through the bale they may be properly secured, so as to hold the bale in a compressed state. .The inner face of the head is `provided with the horizontally-disposed grooves 38, which register with the grooves 34 and 35, formed upon the sides of the needle, and are designed topermit the wire to be received.

In Fig. 5 we have illustrated what we will termv our follower-plate 39, which is provided with the semicircular recesses 40, coinciding in position with and designed to receive the contiguous side of the needles 34 and 35, and it is obvious that after the needles have been provided with the baling- Wire, as by extending said wire in the grooves 33 and thence in the grooves 34 and 35 around the point and in the recess 37 and thence along the other side of .the needle. said needle is ready for the reception of the fol lower-plate, which may be placed in position by entering the same between -the needles. lVhen the parts are thus assembled, the hay may be introduced through the hopper into the receiving-chamber, when the operatinghandle may be properly manipulated, which will cause the head 14 to drive the hay or other commodity into the compression-chainber at .the end fof the casing or between the uprights 3 and 4, and it is obvious that when the bale has been fully compressed the ends of the needles will extend through suitable lOO IIO

recesses 40 adapted to receive said needles; a In testimony whereof We affix ourl signacontrolling-shaft 43 on each side of the oomtures in presence of tWo Witnesses.

pression-chamber having an operating-handle and a detent whereby the follower-plate 5 may be engaged and held until each shaft is rotated by said handle sueiently to disen- Witnesses: gage said detent, all substantially as speei- ELMER F. OGILING,

ed and for the purpose set forth. MILDRED GRAHAM. 

